The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-10
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The Washington correspondent OF
the New York Times writes bis paper
that:
1t is saio Dy persons who claim to know
that the passage by the House to-day of the
Senate bill transferring the northern por
ton of the Territory of Idaho to the Terri
tory of Washington is part of a grand pro-
ject which will be fully developed next
winter, and the object of which is to wipe
existence. The plan is said to be to annex
the portion of Idaho not attached TO Wash
ington to Nevada, together wit the north
ern part of Utah, including ogden and Salt
Lake City. Then the remainder of Utah is
to be made a part of'Golorado, and thus
Idaho md Utah are to disappear from the
map, while Washington is to have its pop
ulation so increased that Its demand to be
admitted as State must be needed, It is
declared that Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
will have charge of this scheme in the
Senate.
We are not certain that the people OF
Utah are not approaching that frame of
mind when they will wish something of
the kind indicated by the correspondent
would occur. For fully twenty years
now they have been abused, NAL
treated, lied about, robbed and perse-
cuted, and deprived of many of their
rights as American citizens. That they
are here to-day and have any rights
whatever. is due to the energetic war of
defense which they have made, and
which they are waging now with more
determination and vigor than ever. If
the wiping out of the Territory and at
taching the community to State will
cause cessation of this eternal and in
ernsl war upon the people who are
striving so to have peace and prosper
ity; if it will silence the liars and put a
quietus upon the unprincipled ras-
Gals who have cost Utah 80
much treasure and brought so
much misery to honest, law-abiding
and law-loving men and women; if it
will put stop to Congress, at the re-
quest gang lof as dirty scoundrels
as ever escaped the gallows, becoming
the engine of oppression of the COM
munity, we don't know but the people
would do well to favor the scheme.
But there is one part of the project
against which all will protest, and it is
not certain that people would not take
up arms to prevent its consummation-
We refer to annexation to Nevada. AS
between that and life in the Peniten-
tiary, expstriation, or death itself, we
believe the majority of the people
would prefer any of the latter alterna-
tives. Whatever may be said of Utah,
its political record is clear, and its
financial record is pure. 1t has never
sold offices, and bribery and corruption
Of public men are unknown. Whatever
may be said Of Nevada, it cannot
be said that it is anything other
than the most corrupt State in the
Union; it is rotten through and
through. Such a thing as political
honesty was never known In the State,
and the meaning of Official integrity is
nov understood. To the people of Utah
honor and reputation are beyond price,
while in Nevada they are wort b just
what they will bring in cash in the
open market. It would be the very
essence of cruelty to compel the people
of Utah to shoulder any of the foul
reputation of Nevada. If Nevada must
have territory and people to keep it
alive let it have Idaho, or Arizona, but
for the sake of decency, for the sake of
humanity and for the sake of justice, do
rot inflict this cruelty upon the already
grossly afflicted and wickedly tortured
people of Utah. If Utah has to be OBJ.
liberated, give it to Colorado, where
there is semblance of purity and where
al men do not publicly advertise them
selves for sale to the highest bidder.
However, wen wait until Senator
Stewart shall present his scheme for the
sslva'ion of Nevada and the destruction
of Utah.
Ter Ascn.,-a-pD Droee aoa1I Kho,oL.